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Boye Mafe: "It Felt Really Good To Be Back On The Field" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Oh good. I felt like I had a solid game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's definitely, you know, things that you got
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  Speaker 1: to improve on. You're never perfect, you never have one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent game, but I definitely saw the strides. I
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  Speaker 1: definitely felt more comfortable out there, you know, noticing the
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  Speaker 1: little things in the game and noticing myself. I felt
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  Speaker 1: really good to be back on the field and doing
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  Speaker 1: a full live live and tackled since last season. So
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  Speaker 1: getting one of those end was really nice.
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  Speaker 2: He said the other day, he feels like your game
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  Speaker 2: is I think you said night and day from last year.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel that, and then in what way is
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  Speaker 2: that different?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's definitely different, you know, especially coming in as
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  Speaker 1: a rookie last year, a lot of things were a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, you know, a little bit different for me.
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to learn a lot while playing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to figure it out on the fly.
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  Speaker 2: But now that I have the time of an off.
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  Speaker 1: Season, you know, going to watch film and understanding where
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  Speaker 1: I messed up last year and what things to look
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  Speaker 1: for and how to you know, arl the game down
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  Speaker 1: for myself, it's helped a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Where do those things show up the most for you,
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  Speaker 2: Like when you're out there free staff where you kind
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  Speaker 2: of notice like this is something I would have missed
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  Speaker 2: last year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's definitely understanding situations and knowing like what performations
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  Speaker 1: to look for and what teas to look for. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of different things in the game of football
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  Speaker 1: that you can you know, key in on the little
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  Speaker 1: things that you can watch for. But I definitely noticed
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  Speaker 1: that now I can see a lot more than I
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  Speaker 1: used to. I used to have one key, Now I
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of keys.
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  Speaker 2: What's the biggest right for me?
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  Speaker 1: The biggest thing is just understanding my responsibility and understanding
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  Speaker 1: how guys are fitting off of me. So as long
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  Speaker 1: as I'm doing my job, I know I can trust
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  Speaker 1: in my brothers to take care of the rest and
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know, it makes
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  Speaker 1: it all work better for everybody as long as we're
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  Speaker 1: on the same side.
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  Speaker 2: That really what you guys are talking about. Do your
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  Speaker 2: own job, do your.
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  Speaker 1: Job and everyone. It's the wing man, you know, wing
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  Speaker 1: man philosophy of you know, you can't leave your ring man,
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  Speaker 1: so you got to be able to be next to
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  Speaker 1: him and do your job so they can trust you
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  Speaker 1: into you your job and if everyone does their job,
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  Speaker 1: we should be all right.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely. I mean having Bruce with us last year was
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  Speaker 2: a big help.
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  Speaker 1: It helped a lot because you know, as a veteran
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  Speaker 1: who's been in the league for countless years, it's definitely
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that I I took into an
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  Speaker 1: account and I definitely learned from him and just helped
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  Speaker 1: me symplify the game for myself. Particular for me, he
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  Speaker 1: taught to me about how you know, you can't make
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  Speaker 1: the game bigger than it is as long as you
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  Speaker 1: lock in and you know your keys and just focus
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  Speaker 1: on those and make it a lot simpler and just
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  Speaker 1: you're not overthinking and just playing free, trusting in yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Michael, thinking of the broadcast night, what do you Michael Bennett.
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  Speaker 2: He's a good guy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he preaches a lot of things, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: the biggest thing you're always gonna preach is violence, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, having that in your repertoire and making sure
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  Speaker 1: that you're using your hands and making sure that your
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  Speaker 1: hand placement is key and using those things to understand
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  Speaker 1: that when you have better leverage, you can play a
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  Speaker 1: better game.
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  Speaker 2: I got oh for sure. You know, he teaches get off.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we were watching clip from practice and all
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  Speaker 1: the things you're watching bout is to get off, making
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  Speaker 1: sure your timing is right, making sure you're keying the
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  Speaker 1: right thing, and making sure if it's the ball or
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  Speaker 1: the man whatever's moving first gun off on that.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen you working with the ones A license narrow
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  Speaker 2: has been out. But I guess what what's that like
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  Speaker 2: for you? I can't kind of working as a starter, I.
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  Speaker 1: Guess it's been nice, you know, understanding that you know
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  Speaker 1: the way the guys move and understand the gel and
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  Speaker 1: really getting that comfortability working with those guys so that
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  Speaker 1: you know when game time happens that it's not missing
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  Speaker 1: the beat and that we can understand that we can
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  Speaker 1: work well together so that you know they're all Especially
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of veteran guys on that D line.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of veter guns on the backer side,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, working with them makes it a lot
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  Speaker 1: easier for myself.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think you can do this year? The
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  Speaker 2: team that you can.
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  Speaker 1: Do? I mean for me, it's just being doing my
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  Speaker 1: job honestly, you know, figuring out my role this year
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  Speaker 1: and understanding that I have to be a contributing factor,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not just the guy on the team, but
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  Speaker 1: being a contributing factor into what we're doing this year.
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  Speaker 2: Thank a boy.
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  Speaker 1: What advice would you give to a rookie got wearing.
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  Speaker 2: Number fifty eight in the same season you were the
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  Speaker 2: last year? You know.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great question, by the way, but uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as me I would say as a young guy coming in,
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  Speaker 1: you know, don't make the game bigger than itself.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same thing you're doing in college.
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  Speaker 1: So just locking on your keys and understand whatever role
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  Speaker 1: you're giving, whatever situation you're in, is due to your
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  Speaker 1: best of your ability and we got you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so perfect. Guys,